Based on Florotor’s Buzz 130, this is another 3″ based micro quadcopter. Once again, I was not happy with the design solution offered by the original kit (a massive full size 1177 cam pod) and instead opted for my own design and cam canopy. With it’s 3.5mm frame, this little one should be close to […]
Continue Reading →Different from most mini-quads, these micro-quads do not work with brushless motors that have to be driven by ESCs, but with extremely small and lightweight brushed motors. The big advantage is that these tiny copters can be build very tiny and more importantly very light, making them excellent for indoor flights on rainy days. It […]
Continue Reading →This little guy is based on the RotorX Raiju frame, which is currently the standard-setting frame for 3″ sized hexacopters. While RotorX provides both a top plate and a carbon fiber canopy solution, neither were what I was looking for. The canopy seems impractical and forces on to place much of the wiring beneath the […]
Continue Reading →This is my first self-build, remote controlled quadcopter. It is clearly built with racing and air-acrobatics in mind. No place for such features as self-leveling, GPS or “return to home” features. This is a bare, naked racing machine. Think not of a street-legal sports car, think of the kind of gutted, no-comfort racing cars you […]
Continue Reading →Heralded as one of the strongest signs of a new industrial age, a time where one no longer depends on the production facilities of large corporations, a time where one just scans and prints whatever one needs, the 3D printer has made somewhat of a splash in the last couple of years. Technically, the little […]
Continue Reading →This project is the outcome of me trying to replicate the results study run by some researchers at Osnabrück University and published in the Journal of Neural Engineering under the title “Beyond sensory substitution–learning the sixth sense” The abstract reads: Rapid advances in neuroscience have sparked numerous efforts to study the neural correlate of consciousness. […]
Continue Reading →As my parents are keeping up with technology pretty well, a small computer has been part of the living room’s ensemble of electronic gear for quite a while now. But with the audio&video sky-rocketing from s-video discs and crappy *.avi files to DVD, Full HD, Blueray untouched and finally 4K videos, with new Skype, Office […]
Continue Reading →Every now and then I feel like I have to step away from the books and get my hands a little dirty. Although mostly not quite literally “dirty”. This time, for example, I had to wear latex gloves the whole time.. Over the weekend I had the opportunity to help Hong Kong’s team for the […]
Continue Reading →What does it do? It glows blue. Well, actually, it glows blue/violet-ish and has has a rotating beam of radioactive green looking light in the middle. As a special present for my mother I made an advanced version of a Uranium Marble Ring Oscillator pendant. For those scared by the word “uranium”: rest assured, there […]
Continue Reading →*please imagine the following paragraph to be spoken by one of those TV advertisement guys: Ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to work on something but the people around you kept staring at your screen? Well, no more! Because, with our brand new privacy screen 3000, you can surf the web unhindered […]
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